Rotary display-stand



J. ZANDER.

ROTARY DISPLAY STAND.

APPLICATION man mzc.s,1919.

Patentd Nov. 30, 1920.

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J. ZANDER.

ROTARY DISPLAY STAND. APPLICATION FILED 05c. 6. 1919.

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'J'OHNZANDER, OE ROCK FALLS, ILLINOIS.

ROTARY DISPLAY-STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented N 30, 192() Application filedDecember 6, 1919. Serial No. 342,800.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, JOHN ZANDER, a c1t1- zen of the United States,residing at Rock Falls, in the county of Nhiteside and Eitate ofIllinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in RotaryDisplay-Stands, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present sole invention is the provision of a rotarydisplay stand that is simple and inexpensive in construction, and islight in weight and complete in itself, and is therefore readilyportable, in the sense that it is adapted to be conveniently moved as aunit from one part of a store to another.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in theimprovement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, hereby made a part hereof: V

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the best practical embodiment of myinvention that I have as yet devised.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail vertical section showing the socket at theupper end of the driven shaft of the stand for the re ception andconnection of the superimposed display means.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line3-3 of Fig. 1, looking downwardly, to show the construction of the baseframe of the stand.

Fig. 1 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line4-4 of Fig. 1, looking downwardly and illustrating the gearing fortransmitting motion to, and re ducing the speed of rotation of, the saiddriven shaft.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all ofthe views of the drawings.

The rotary display means 1 of my improvement may be of the constructionillustrated for the display of hats, or may be of any other suitableconstruction; it being within the purview of my invention for the saiddisplay means 1 to be constructed in various manners according to thecharacter of the goods to be displayed to advantage, incidental to therotation of the said means. At its lower end, the said display means 1is provided with a central pendent stem 2.

lower and upper bars of the member 1 and is fixedly connected thereto atthe points of intersection.

J ournaled centrally in the frame 3, is an upright driven shaft 6 whichextends through the upper bars of the frame members 5 and 4:, and isprovided at its upper end with a socket 7, equipped with a setscrew 8.At a point between the lower bars and the upper bars of the base framemernbers 1 and 5, the driven shaft 6 is provided with a horizontallydisposed circumferentially grooved pulley 9, fixed thereto.

Journaled between the upper and lower bars of the frame member 1, is anupright shaft 10, upon which is fixed a comparatively smallcircumferentially grooved pulley 11 that is connected through the mediumof a belt 12 with the pulley 9 of the driven shaft 6. Also fixed on theshaft 10 is a comparatively large circumferentially grooved pulley 13.

Carried between the upper and lower bars of the base frame member 5 isan upright shaft 14 upon which are fixed a large. circumferentiallygrooved pulley 15 and a comparatively small circumferentially groovedpulley 16, the latter being connected through a belt 17 with the largepulley 13 of the shaft 10.

Carried by that end portion of the frame member 4 remote from the shaft10, is a motor 18. This motor 18 is illustrated diagrammatically,inasmuch as it is within the purview of my invention for it to be of anytype adapted for the driving of the shaft 6 and for the rotation of thedisplay means 1 carried by the said shaft 6.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that when the motor 18 is put inmotion, the display means 1 will be slowly rotated about its axis forthe advantageous exhibition of the articles carried by the said displaymeans.

The salient feature of my invention re sides in the adaptability of thestand being conveniently moved from place to place in a store by asingle person and as a unit, and this notwithstanding the fact that thestand includes rotary display means, and motor driven means for rotatingthe said display means about its axis.

Having described my invention, what I' nected together, a centralvertical shaft journaled in the intersecting portions of theframemembers and 'provid'edwith a pulley,

a second upright shaft and pulleys of differcut sizes thereon mountedbetween the upper and lower bars of one frame member at one side 'of theother frame member,'a third upright shaft and pulleys of differentdiameters thereon arranged between the upper and lower bars of the otherframe member, a motor carried at the end portion of the first namedframe member at the side opposite to that of the first-named shaftwithpulleys of different diameters thereon'and having a pulley on itsarmature shaft, a belt connecting said motor pulley and large pulley onthe third-namedshaft, a belt connecting the small pulley on said shaft,and a large pulley on the second-named shaft, and a belt connecting thesmall pulley on the secondnamed shaft and the pulley on the centralshaft.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 7

' JOHN 'ZANDER.

